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Ninety percent of the Catholic priests in the U.S. oppose 1) "a shooting war outside the Western Hemisphere," 2) aid to "the Communistic Russian Govern ment." This was the result, announced last week, of a poll taken by the Catholic Laymen's Committee for Peace, an organization of out-&-out isolationists. Although the results were undoubtedly loaded by the form in which the questions were put, the trend of the results was vouched for by the attitude of the Catholic press...
Argentina was virtually without a Government. President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz was too ill to govern. Acting President Castillo too hamstrung by the Radicals, who saw their party being edged out of the power it won at the polls...
...easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. So said Hamlet, explaining how to play a recorder...
...dining hall headaches, Yale is at present threatened by a walkout of most of its employees. During the summer months the United Construction Workers Union, a C. I. O. outfit representing 400 of Yale employees, presented Eli officials with demands for collective bargaining and closed shop to govern wages, hours, and conditions of employment...
...most States where it is legal, prizefighting is controlled by a State-appointed commission. All but four of these commissions, up to last week, were members of the National Boxing Association, a self-appointed body that has tried for 22 years to govern the U.S. prize ring...